Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.5 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Untouched by wars for a long time, Stockholm has some great old architecture to see. The exception would be Norrmalm, where much was demolished in the 1950s and 1960s to give place to what was then more modern buildings. Looking at it the other way around, if interested in this kind of architecture this is the place to go.
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Things to do
There is a wide selection of guided tours available, by boat, by bus and on foot. = = Hop On - Hop Off Boat. daily 10:00-16:00. Audio track in 11 languages. Two of the most frequented stops are at the Palace, and at the Gamla Stan, right across the canal from T Slussen. The recordings on this loop service are reasonably informative. 24-hr ticket from 180 kr. Under the bridges of Stockholm.
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Where to eat
Stockholm features a large variety of restaurants, and the dining scene has markedly improved since the turn of the century, both in terms of quality and variety. However, dining in Stockholm can be expensive if you aim for something else than the fast food bars, the run-of-the-mill British-style pubs or the ethnic restaurants that dominate the budget bracket.
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Getting to Stockholm
- Airports
- Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 36 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 86 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 89 km
- Stockholm / Västerås → Stockholm86 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · kr100–130
- Nyköping → Stockholm88 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · kr95–125
- Linköping → Stockholm174 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · kr185–250
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Stockholm
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stockholm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inStockholm is served by international luxury cruise ships (see cruising the Baltic Sea), and the local Baltic Sea ferries ("ferry" is quite a misnomer, most are giant ships).
- Get inThe Baltic Sea ferries link Stockholm to Helsinki, Mariehamn and Turku (these ships are locally known as finlandsbåtar, "Finland boat"), Riga and Tallinn every day.
- Get inMost importantly, it's used by Viking Line for ferries to Mariehamn, Helsinki and Turku and their 22-hour cruises to Mariehamn.
- Get inThere are multiple departures from the port 15–60 minutes after the ferry arrives and from the station 1–3 hours before the ferry departs.
- Get inThe ferry terminal is served by SL commuter train line 43.
From Wikivoyage: Stockholm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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